New Trends in Feminine Spirituality The Holy Women of Liege and their Impact MWTC 2 Medieval Women Texts and Contexts

New Trends in Feminine Spirituality The Holy Women of Liege and their Impact MWTC 2 Medieval Women Texts and Contexts

Was there a women’s movement in the thirteenth century and is such a question meaningful in its medieval context? Far from being resolved, the issue of whether women had a thirteenth-century renaissance has still decisively to unsettle the periodization of Western European history in twelfth and sixteenth-century humanist renaissances. Herbert Grundmann long ago demonstrated the participation of women in the eremitically-inspired reforming movements of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and in the production of vernacular literature. Yet it is upon his work that this volume builds, for the diocese of Li